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  Our Next Major Event is May 21st: “African-American Experience at Scull Shoals” Fall Elections--New Leaders The Fall Board meeting was held at Carolyn Reynolds Parker’s lovely downtown home on November 14, 2004. Elections there produced our new leadership team: Co-President: Maxine Singleton Co-President: Ed Goff Secretary: Rebecca Born Treasurer: Jim Ashworth Past-President: Jack Wynn Charlie Baugh was asked to become a new Board Member. The Board voted to begin process of revising the By-Laws to include both Executive and Advisory Boards, and slightly modify other aspects of the group’s operations. Rebecca Born has resigned as our Intern-Curator and become a Board member. She was partly funded by the Georgia Humanities Council Grant which is supporting our Spring Festivals and Scull Shoals Papermaking Exhibit at the American Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta. Part-Time Curator Contracted Friends of Scull Shoals, Inc. has contracted with Ms. Laurie Sedicino of Atlanta to be our Part-Time Curator. Laurie will assist in organizing and promoting two Spring Festivals, March 19 and May 21, and develop exhibits for the May Festival which can circulate afterwards. Laurie will work with local communities to find crafters and volunteers in the May 21st festival, focusing on the “African-American Experience at Scull Shoals.” She will also coordinate promotions with the area news media to encourage attendance at both Festivals. Exhibit Opens in Atlanta The Grand Opening for an exhibit called “Papermaking at Scull Shoals” was held in the lobby of the American Museum of Papermaking on the Georgia Tech Campus on December 9, 2004. The Museum is under the Direction of Cindy Bowden of our Board. The exhibition will be on display until the end of March and then travel to other venues. It was the first of a three-part public education program sponsored by the Museum and the Friends partly funded under a grant from the Georgia Humanities Council. The exhibit opening was very well attended. This is the first grant to the Friends of Scull Shoals (jointly with the American Museum of Papermaking). Board members are excited about possibilities for our educational programs. Most of the grant funding supports a Part-time Curator to develop and promote public education activities such as the Museum Exhibit and the 19th Century Craft Demonstrations at the Mill Village site. Nellie Barnett Jones Visits As a highlight of the very successful Fall Festival in October, Mrs. Nellie Barnett Jones and her extended family came to visit Scull Shoals for the first time in many years. She is a daughter of Frank Barnett, one of the last inhabitants of Scull Shoals. They lived in the village, then called “Parson.” Her mother taught in the Parson School. Mrs. Jones came from near Detroit and met with her sister and other family members from Georgia in a grand family reunion. The Barnetts, Wards, and others toured the town and swapped stories with tour guides Bob Skarda, Ed Goff, Dayna Gunter and Jack Wynn. Co-President Maxine Singleton is a distant relative of the Barnetts, so she invited them to come for a family reunion at the Fall Festival. We hope they will come again whenever we have a festival at the Old Mill Village site! This newsletter is published by and for the non-profit Friends of Scull Shoals, Inc., P.O. Box 295, Greensboro, GA 30642. Questions? mfjtwynn@bellsouth.net  |
